About Stop The Trucks!

What will happen in the Ojai Valley if the rock and gravel mines, their lobbyists and supporters at Cal Trans, and the planning departments of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties have their way?

Each day, 800 double-hopper, 80,000-pound diesel-exhaust polluting, speeding, behemoth trucks could be traveling up and down Highway 33 to and from five different mines located in the Los Padres National Forest. After careening back and forth on one of California’s designated scenic highways, those trucks will run through the Ojai Valley’s most sensitive locations. Ojai will then be transformed into a heavily industrialized trucking zone – polluting, endangering and destroying a bucolic town that embodies the small-town experience of a California that has all but vanished elsewhere in the state.

With your support, The Stop The Trucks! Coalition – in association with the Ojai Valley Green Coalition, the Los Padres Forest Watch, the City of Ojai, the Ojai Chamber of Commerce and the Ojai Unified School District – may be able to prevent the destruction of a unique town known for the arts, education, tourism, and extraordinary natural beauty. In order to avoid widespread industrialization, danger and pollution, we are asking you to participate in Rock the Trucks! to help defray the coalition’s legal fees. Please stand by Ojai during this critical time.

Send your donations of $100 or more to:
Ojai Valley Green Coalition
323 E. Matilija St. Ste. 110-114
Ojai, CA. 93023

Send your donations of under $100 to:
The Ojai Chamber of Commerce
P.O. Box 1134
Ojai, CA, 93024

Be sure to reference the Stop The Trucks! Coalition on the memo line of your check. Donations of $100.00 or more may be tax-deductible (ask your tax advisor).

Or you may also walk your contribution into the Chamber’s offices anytime during the business week, at 201 S. Signal Street — in the Ojai Festivals building — in downtown Ojai.